Upcoming Events

Monday, March 19, 2018

Professor Lawrence Principe
“Alchemy, with a Demonstration of Alchemical Practices”

Monday, March 19, 2018
3:30-4:30 Jordan Science Hall 101

Lawrence Principe is Drew Professor of the Humanities, Department of the History of Science and Technology and Department of Chemistry, at Johns Hopkins University. Professor Principe is also Director of the Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe. Professor Principe, author of The Secrets of Alchemy…

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Teju Cole is a writer, art historian, and photographer. He is the Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College and photography critic of the New York Times Magazine. He was born in the US in 1975 to Nigerian parents, and raised in Nigeria. He currently lives in Brooklyn. He is the author of four books.…

Friday, March 23, 2018

Join us for free, interactive, community centered one day conference honoring the career contributions of Dr. Stuart Greene, Friday, March 23, 8:00 am to 6:30 pm. Together we will explore the intersections of education, multiple literacies, and democracy with the hope of inspiring, connecting, and sharing with others in our community.…

The third meeting of the 2018 American Area Seminar will take place on Friday, February 23, from noon to 1:00 pm in 242 O'Shaughnessy Hall.

Featuring Margaret McMillan,Department of English.

The Notre Dame American Area Seminar is a collective of faculty and graduate students from English and affiliated departments meeting monthly to discuss the most exciting new work in the field. For more information, contact Matt Wilkens (mwilkens@nd.edu…

Natasha Trethewey was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, the daughter of poet, professor, and Canadian emigrant Eric Trethewey and social worker Gwendolyn Ann Turnbough. The daughter of a mixed-race marriage, Trethewey experienced her parents’ divorce when she was six. She subsequently spent time in Atlanta, Georgia, with her mother and in New Orleans, Louisiana, with her father. Encouraged to read as a child, Trethewey studied English at the University of Georgia, earned an MA in English and creative writing from Hollins University, and received an MFA in poetry from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. …

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

The Seminar in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Studies (SENS) in the Department of English is pleased to announce its final presentation of the semester, "The Romantic Sonnet," by Laura Betz, Department of English. Please join us for the talk on Wednesday, April 11, at 5:00 pm in 119 O'Shaughnessy Hall, with discussion and conviviality to follow.…

Goransson will read from recent translations of Korean poet Kim Yideum, Aase Berg’s Hackers, Ann Jäderlund’s Which once had been meadow, Helena Boberg’s Sense Violence as well as an issue of the journal Interim that he just edited which features 20 contemporary Swedish poets.

Johannes Göransson is the author of eight books, including The Sugar Book…

Thursday, April 12, 2018

The English Department is pleased to announce that our 2018 Yusko Ward-Phillips Lecturer is David Wallace, Judith Rodin Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Wallace's lecture, "Sacrifice Your Daughter: Coping with Catastrophe in Chaucer and the Book of Judges​,"…

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Anais Duplan is the author of a full-length poetry collection, Take This Stallion (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016) and a chapbook, Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus (Monster House Press, 2017). Her poems and essays have appeared in Hyperallergic, on PBS News Hour, the Academy of American Poets, Poetry Society of America, Fence, Boston Review, The Journal…

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Jeff VanderMeer is the 2016-2017 Trias Writer-in-Residence for Hobart-William Smith College. His most recent fiction is the NYT-bestselling Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance), which won the Shirley Jackson Award and Nebula Award. The trilogy made over 30 year’s best lists, including Entertainment Weekly’s top 10, and prompted the New Yorker…

In 2015, Abby Burns earned her BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she studied English literature, creative writing, and rhetoric. Her writing primarily focuses on how grief and loss work to shatter our sense of normality. Queer rhetorical theory and writers like James Baldwin, Jeanette Winterson, and Toni Morrison, all influence her work. Abby’s other interests include social movements, intersectional feminism, migration studies, and cheese curds. …